Panelists will discuss philanthropic shifts happening with families and the advisor role in facilitating the planning. One advisor will tell their story of how they listen to the needs of families and support their client’s process toward achieving their philanthropic vision. Attendees will gain insight about evolving family philanthropy stra...
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Impact investing continues to garner increasing attention in the financial media and amongst the investing community. While generating shared consensus and arriving at the decision to invest in line with your family values is a great accomplishment, many families face challenges when it comes to moving beyond conversations and formulating an actual...
This series covers industry sector dynamics in three parts:Part 1: Working the Plan – City Capital Venture’s seasoned deal team, Dan Kipp and Allen Tibshrany will explore the critical steps necessary to ensure success in the first 18 months post-investment, including guidance on governance, transparency and reporting.Part 2: Unlocking o...
Change is never easy, especially with the challenge of mainstreaming impact investing. But when change is fun, it is easier for those faced with seemingly insurmountable challenges to begin to see opportunities. For the past three years in Davos, the World Economic Forum (WEF) has designed and implemented elaborate and highly competitive interactio...
Family member and private investor Oakleigh Thorne will be part of an interactive discussion through the use of a moderator regarding his investment approach since the sale of his family’s business, Commerce Clearing House, 20 years ago. He will share the lessons he has learned in the process and also talk about his experiences as a diversifi...
Today’s families of wealth are increasingly focused on aligning their dollars with their values. The question often is, “Why not deploy our capital to achieve financial return and social/environmental good?” Some view this as abandoning traditional investing. In truth, it’s an evolution of ideals that always have been part of many families’ investm...
Sophisticated families are looking for new ways to positively affect their communities and the world. Learn the innovative approaches of six families achieving lasting impact in our world.
Families are becoming more complex, but a shared family vision and strategy are becoming easier to define. Business-centric families are becoming enterprise-centric and risk assessment is more sophisticated. Having impact in the future will require new strategies and new ways of thinking. The Family Office of old will need to make substantial adjus...
The 50 Best Practices for an Enduring Family Enterprise are the practices that we believe have contributed to the multi-generational success of the highest achieving and most forward thinking families that we know. Case studies, exhibits, and peer benchmarking data are also included to assist you in assessing the relative importance and state of th...
The State of the Art in Family Wealth Management is a great resource for those who need to better understand what it means to be an “enterprise family” and understand how to work within a Family Enterprise Framework. Inside you’ll find the big picture view of the work that families need to be prepared to do, where families need to focus their ...
Your fellow FOX members have contributed these philanthropic planning tools and samples. Please note that these samples have been provided for illustrative purposes only, and may not represent the latest versions at the organizations listed. If you have developed sample planning tools, templates, or practices that you think will be of interest t...
FOX founder Sara Hamilton, together with Margaret Vaughan Cox, will describe what a complex enterprise family looks like and share a new framework, detailed in their recently published book, Build an Enterprise Family to Last: Proven Strategies to Thrive Across Generations, that distinguishes the Family Journey, the Enterprise Journey, an...
This breakout session will expand on the methods introduced earlier, sharing specific tools and techniques that can help families get ‘unstuck’ and move their enterprises forward. The authors of Build an Enterprise Family to Last: Proven Strategies to Thrive Across Generations will highlight milestones that have helped families explain co...
For business and wealth creators, preserving the family in the midst of wealth is far more difficult than creating the wealth. Integrating second and third generations into ownership and decision-making is something business builders haven’t yet experienced. We focus on 14 strategies families can use to integrate rising generations and pass down re...
Generating positive impact has emerged as a key trend within the Family and Wealth Management space. Investors, families, and society show growing interest in measuring the effects of their actions—and non-actions— with an emphasis on the impact of their investments. We explore current views and provide practical ways families can move forward to b...